Skirt marker



y 1940- M. 'INGWER 2,202,660

' SKIRT MARKER Filed Jan. 50, 1940 I-NVENTOR. Max figu e);

Patented May 28, "1948 UNITED STAT PATENT. OFFICE SKIRT MARKER,

Max Ingwer, Forest Hills, N. Y., assignor to Consolidated Sewing Machine & Supply Co. Inc., New York, N. Y., a corporation of New York markers.

The objects of the invention are to provide a skirt marker of as few and inexpensive parts as possible, to so design these parts that they can be quickly and easily assembled or taken apart and, with these special advantages, to have a skirt marker which will be entirely practical and desirable. H

The various novel features of the invention by which the foregoing and otherdesirable objects are attained are set forth hereinafter, illustrated in the accompanying drawing and covered in the claims.

The drawing illustrates certain practical and at presentpreferred forms of the invention, but. it should be understood that structure may be modified and changed as regards this disclosure, all within the true intent and scope of the in 20 vention, as defined in the claims.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of one of the skirt markers.

Figure 2 is an enlarged andpart broken sectional view as on substantially the plane of line 25 2-2 of Fig. 1. Figure'3 is a broken sectional view as on substantially the plane of line 3-3 of Fig. 2. Figure 4 is a view looking atthe back of the sliding clamp shownin'Figure 3, with the stick 30 or support broken away.

Figures 5 and 6 are views similar to Figures 3 and 4, illustrating a modified form of the invention.

Figure 7 is an enlarged sectional detail on line 1-1 of Fig. 1.

35 Figure 8 is a broken front view of the tube guide shown in Figure '7.

As shown in the general view, Figure 1, the device consists in the main of a dispensing head I0, carrying a powder holding jar II, and slidingly engaged upon a vertical support I2. The latter is indicated in the form of a yardstickremovably set in a socket I3, in a base I4.

The dispenser head iss-hown iniFigs. '1, 2 and 3, as a simple block of material having an opening in the top of the, same through which the pipe or tubing I5, is entered and having ascrew socket I6, in the underside of the samefor receiving the screw neck I1 of the powder jar. The forward edge of the block is slitted at I8, to form a thin flaring powder discharge outlet.

, The back of the dispenser head is shown as smooth and flat at I9, to fit smoothly and slide easily over the face of the yardstick. Rearward- 1y projecting lugs 20, at this back portion of 1940, Serial No. 316,319

the head engage the opposite edges of the stick to confinethe head laterally on the stick.

In the first illustrated form of the invention, the rearwardlyprojecting guide lugs 20, are shown as bulged or rounded upwardly and downwardly at 2i, to form shoulders for engagement by the C-shaped rounded end portions 22, of a clip or'bracket which carries at its intermedi ate or bridgingportion 23, between the C-shaped 7 ends an arched spring 24, whose opposite ends 10 yielding-1y bear against the back of the stick at points above and below the head structure.

While the spring 24 may be an integral portion of the mounting clip, it usually is the best practice to cutand shape the spring from fiat 5 strip spring stock and attach it as by rivetsor other suitable fastenings 25, to the intermediate bridge portion of the separately formed clip structure.

Foradditional fastening purposes, the tips of the C-shaped portions 22, of the spring mounting bracket are shown as entering grooves 26, provided in the upper and lower faces of the dispenser head.

In the modification illustrated in Figs. 5 and 6, 25,

the generally C-shaped end'portions 22a, of the spring mounting clip are angular instead of rounded in shape, the rearwardly projecting lugs-- 20a are simply fiat continuations of the upper and lower surfaces of the dispenser head Ilia and the inturned tips of the clip engage in grooves 26aand are permanently secured in this Zelation-by rivets or similar through fastenings In both forms illustrated, engagement of the clip with the head is effected by simply slipping the clip endwise over the lugs projecting from the back of the ejector head. In the first form shown, separation of the clip from the head is prevented, after the head is in position on the 40 stick, by the dispositionof the C-shaped eatensions at the opposite side edges of the stick, Fig.

4, and in the second form, the through fasten-- ings 21, positively secure the clip against separation from the head. One such through fasten- 7 ing may be employed instead of the two shown and for general purposes, itis usually sufiicient' to rely upon the cooperative relation between the clip and the stick toprevent separation of the spring clip from the head.

The spring strip 24 is shown as placed inside the back of the mounting clip and the latter is indicated as grooved or arched outwardly at 28, to provide a groove ,or channel in the back of the clipfor receiving and positioning the spring.

The pipe or tubing I5, is elastically held and sealed where it passes through the top of the dispenser head by means of a rubber or elastic grommet 29, Fig. 3. This grommet is shown as having spaced flanges engaging the upper and lower surfaces of the wall 30, forming the top of the head and an intermediate neck portion substantially filling the opening 38, through this top wall. The center opening in the grommet through which the pipe or tubing passes is of a size to yieldingly grip and hold such pipe or tubing. As a consequence, the grommet is elastically held in the top wall of the head and the pipe or tubing is elastically held in. the grommet and consequently in the wall of the dispensing head. These parts so assembled will holdirr such relation. This holding is so effective that in the case of rigid tubing, the latter may be used as a handle for shifting the dispenser head vertically to different positions of adjustment on the stick. 1

The pipe or tubing may be guided at the top. It is here shown as extending throughv a-loop 32, in a twisted wire guide which has its ends bent to form spring jaws 33, yieldingly gripping over the opposite edges of the stick. This spring w'ire guide, after it is opened or spread to engage it over the end of the stick may be shifted to any desired position on the stick, where it will then remain unless againshifted or removed from the stick.

The pipe or tubing is shown as entering the top of the dispenser eccentrically in relation to the jar and toward the back of the dispenser'head. This serves to introduce the air in the back'of the jar and furthest removed from the powder discharge slot at the front and also positions the pipe or tubing as close as possible to the stick. With the pipe or tubing thus close to the face of the stick, the guide need project only a slight distance-from the face of the stick. This arrangement also enables the tubing, if it be a rigid connection, to serve more readily as a handle for adjusting the dispenser up and down on the stick, since the shifting force is. then'applied relatively close to the plane of sliding engagement of the head with the stick.

Any suitable form ofpressure creating means may be provided, such as a simple bulb on the upper end of the pipe or tubing as indicated at 34. I

In this invention, the parts are few and all of simple inexpensive and sturdy design. The dispenser head is an inexpensive part, of simple design, readily molded in one piece. Whenv molded in plastic, the discharge slit may be formed by a small circular saw cut in the front edge of the dispenser block. Assembly of the device is accomplished by simply putting the parts together and once assembled their inter-engagement and relation hold them so and prevent accidental disconnection. The structure however is such that at any time the parts can be readily separated as for shipping or storage.

The double flanged elastic grommet seals the pipe or tubing tightly in the dispenser head, holding said tubing at the proper distance to which it has been set to extend down into the powder jar and serving as a yielding coupling between the tubular connection and head when such connection is used as an adjusting handle. The slightly bowed, two armed spring by engagement'with the stick, at relatively widely separated points, above and below the point of engagemen't of the head with the stick, holds the head, making tight joint therewith when fully screwed up into position. Actually this container may be in the nature of a bottle, jar or can, made of glass, plastic, metal, wood, paper or other materials, and it may be removably connected and supported by other than a screw joint, although the latter at present is preferred, because of its simple, inexpensive and positive character. The air tube [5 may be either rigid or flexible in character, or partially rigid as where it enters the top of the dispenser and partly flexible.

To more positively hold or interlock the air tubing in the grommet, such tubing, particularly the rigid pipe form may be provided with a reduced portion 35, where it is held in the grommet, thus to provide the shoulders 33, in engagement with the opposite ends of the grommet. Thus with this construction, the grommet will still hold the pipe even if there be some shrinkage of parts. I To positively overcome any tendency of the spring wire clip from tilting on the stick, the ends of the same may be bent in opposite directions as indicated at 3 and doubled over as shown, so as to leave no rough edges. a

The rearward offset in the back of the bracket locates the mid portion ofthe spring andthe heads of the rivets which hold the spring in place, so that these parts will entirely clear the ends of the lugs when slipping the bracket edgewise into interlockedv position over the lugs.

The opposite sides of the head may be fluted, corrugated, roughened or otherwise treated as indicated at 38, to provide finger grips by which the headmay be readily held in slipping the bracket into position thereon or in some instances, for sliding the head up and down on the stick, particularly when flexible tubing is used which can not be used as. a handle, as can a rigid pipe. When rubber tubing is employecLJit may be fastened more securely and particularly to prevent it being pulled up out of the grommet, by forcing a somewhat oversize ferrule up inside the tubing below the grommet, thus to expand the tubing andprovide in effect the equivalent of the 1 opening through the top of the same, a socket in the underside of the same, a powder discharge slot in the front of thesame and extending inwardly into communication with said socket, the

back of said head beingslidingly engaged with the face of said upright support and said head having rearwardly projecting lugs spaced to extend to opposite sides ,of said upright support,

a powder holder detachably engagedin said socket and dependent from saidhead, air tubing entered through said opening in the top of the dispenser head,air pressurecreating means-connected with said tubing, a-clip having substantially C-shaped end portions engaged with said rearwardly extending lugs andconnected in spaced relation byga bridge portion and spring arms carried by saidbridge portion andyield-ingly engaging the back of the upright support at points above and below said dispenser head.

2. A skirt marker, comprising in combination, an upright support, a dispenser'head having an opening through the top of the same, a socket in the underside of the same, a powder discharge slot in the frontof the same and extending inwardly into communication with said socket, the back of said head being slidingly engaged with the faceof said upright support and said head having rearwardly projecting lugs spaced to extend to opposite sides of said upright support, a powder holder detachably engaged-in said socket and dependent from said head, air tubing entered through said opening in the top of the dispenser head, air pressure creating means connected with said tubing, a clip having substantially G-shaped end portions engaged with said rearwardly extending lugs and connected in spaced relation by a bridge portion and spring arms carried by said bridge portion and yielding- 1y engaging the back of the upright support at points above and below said dispenser head, said,

socket beingin the form of a substantially circular seat and said tubing being entered through the top of the-dispenser head eccentrically or" said seat and toward the back of said head.

3. A skirt marker, comprising in combination;

an upright support, a dispenser head having an opening through the top of the same, a socket in the underside of the same, a powder discharge slot in the front of the same and extending inwardly into communication with said socket, the back of said head being slidingly engaged with the face of said upright support and said head having rearwardly projecting lugs spaced to 6X- tend to opposite sides of said upright support, a powder holder detachably engaged in said socket and dependent from said head, air tubing entered through said opening in the top of the dispenser head, air pressure creating means connected with said tubing, a clip having substantially C-shaped end portions engaged with said rearwardly extending lugs and connected in spaced relation by a bridge portion and spring arms carried by said bridge portion and yieldingly engaging the back of the upright support at points above and below said dispenser head and an elastic grommet seated in said top opening about, said tubing and having spaced flanges engaging upper and said head, said elastic grommet being held compressed by the walls of is seated and compressibly gripping said tubing to thereby secure said tubing in position to extend a predetermined distance down into said powder container and forming a resilient coupling between the tubing and the head through which the tubing may be used as a handle to slide the dispenser head to different positions on the upright support.

i. A skirt marker, comprising in combination, an upright support, a dispenser head having an opening through the top of the same, a socket in the underside of the same, a powder discharge slot in the front of the same and extending inwardly into communication with said socket, the back of said head being slidingly engaged with the face of said upright support and said head having rearwardly projecting lugs spaced to extend to opposite sides or said upright support, a power holder detachably engaged in said socket and dependent from said head, air tubing entered through said opening in the top of the lower surfaces of the top of said opening in which it dispenser head, air pressure creating means connected with said tubing, a clip having substantially C-shaped end portions engaged with said rearwardly extending lugs and connected in spaced relation by a bridge portion and spring arms carried by said bridge portion and yieldinglyengaging the back of the upright support at points above and below said dispenser head and an elastic grommet seated in said top opening about said tubing and having spaced flanges engaging upper and lower surfaces of the top of said head, said elastic grommet being held compressed by the walls of said opening in which it is seated and compressibly gripping said tubing to thereby secure said tubing in position to extend a predetermined distance down into said powder container and forming a resilient cou pling between the tubing and the head through which the tubing may be used as a handle to slide the dispenser head to different positions on the upright support and a spring wire clip yieldingly gripped over opposite edges of said up right support and twisted in the form of a loop surrounding said tubing.

5'. In a skirt marker, a substantially flat horizontally extending dispenser head having a screw socket in the underside of the same, an opening through the top of the same and a horizontally extending powder discharge slit extending inwardly from. the front edge of the same into communication with said screw socket, said head havingspaced rearwardly projecting lugs at the back of the same, a mounting bracket having forwardly projecting substantialy Q shaped end portions engaged with said rearwardly projecting lugs, upwardly and downward-- ly projecting spring arms carried by said mounting bracket, an upright stick slidingly engaged by the back of said head and by said upwardly and downwardly projecting-spring arms, a screw mouth powder containing jar engaged in said screw socket and supported thereby, an elastic grommet seated in said opening in the top of the dispenser head and air conducting tubing extending downwardly through and yieldingly gripped in said grommet.

6. In a skirt marker, a horizontally extending dispenser head having a screw socket in the underside of the same, an opening through the top of the same and a horizontally extending powder discharge slit extending inwardly from the front edge of the head into communication with said screw socket, an upright support at the back of said head and slidinglyengaged thereby, a bracket at the back of saidupright support and having forwardly extending arms ininterlocked engagement with the head at opposite sides of said upright support, upwardly and downwardly projecting spring arms carried by said bracket and yieldingly engaging the back of said upright support at points above and below said head, a screw mouth powder container engaged in said screw socket and supported thereby, an elastic grommet compressibly seated in said opening in the top of the head and air conducting tubing compressibly held in said elastic grommet and extending downwardly toward the interior of said powder container.

7. A skirt marker, comprising a generally flat horizontally extending'head, having a substantially horizontal slit in the front edge of the same, a smooth back portion, a socket in. the

underside of the same and an opening through the top, said head having shoulders at the rearward edge portions of the same, a bracket slidable edgewise over the back of said head member and having elements interlocking with said shoulders in said edgewise shifting movement, an upright support engageable by said smooth back portion of the head, spring means carried by said bracket in resilient sliding engagement with the back of said upright support, a powder container removably. engaged in said socket in the underside of the head and air conducting tubing extending downward through said opening toward the interior of said powder container.

8. A skirt marker, comprising an upright support, a marking head slidably mounted on said upright support and including upwardly extending air conducting tubing and a length of wire twisted in a loop at the face of the support surrounding said tubing and opposed jaws engaging opposite edge portions of said upright support, said jaws having upwardly and downwardly projecting extensions engaging the back of the upright support to oppose tipping of said loop at the face of the support.

9. A powder dispenser for a skirt marker, comprising a horizontally extending dispenser head having an opening in the top of the same, a powder discharge outlet in the front of the same and a socket below the opening in the top, a powder holder removably engaged in said socket, a flanged elastic grommet engaged in said top opening and air pressure tubing extending through said grommet and having a reduced shouldered portion disposed between the upper and lower ends of the grommet, said grommet being held compressed by the walls of the opening in which it is seated and compressibly gripping said reduced portion of said tubing to there by secure said tubing in position to extend a predetermined distance down into said powder holder and to form a resilient coupling between the tubing and the head, through which the tubing may be used as a handle for shifting said dispenser head. i

10. A skirt marker, comprising in combination, an upright support, a dispenser head having an opening through the top of the same, a socket in the underside of the same, a powder discharge slot in the front of the same and extending inwardly into communication with said socket, the back of said head being slidingly engaged with the face of said upright support, a powder holder detachably engaged in said socket and dependent from said head, air tubing entered through said opening in the top of the dispenser head, air pressure creating means connected with said tubing, spring arms connected with the back portion of said head at opposite sides of the upright support and yieldingly engaging the back of said upright support at vertically separated points and an elastic grommet seated in said top opening about said tubing and having spaced flanges engaging upper and lower surfaces of the top of said head, said elastic grommet being held compressed by the walls of said opening in which it is seated and compressibly gripping said tubing to thereby secure said tubing in position to extend a predetermined distance'down into said powder container and forming a resilient coupling between the tubing and the head through which the tubing may be used as a handle to slide the dispenser head to diiferent positions on the upright support.

11. A skirt markencomprising in combination, an upright support, a dispenser head having an opening through the'top of the same, a socket in the underside of the same, a powder discharge slot in the front of the same and extending inwardly into communication with said socket, the back of said head being slidingly engaged with the face of said upright support, a powder holder detachably engaged in said socket and dependent from said head, air tubing entered through said opening in the top of the dispenser head, air pressure creating means connected with said tubing, spring arms connected with the back portion of said head at opposite sides of the upright support and yieldingly engaging the back of said upright support at vertically separated points and an elastic grommet seated in said top opening about said tubing and having spaced flanges engaging upper and lower surfaces of the top of said head, said elastic grommet being held compressed by the walls of said opening in which it is seated and compressibly gripping said tubing to thereby secure said tubing in position to extend a predetermined distance down into said powder container and forming a resilient coupling between the tubing and the head through which the tubing may be used as a handle to slide the dispenser head to different positions on the upright support and a vertically adjustable spring clip having an intermediate loop portion surrounding the tubing and opposed jaws yieldingly gripped over opposite edges of the upright support. 7

MAX INGWER. 

